Nice words, but of course meaningless in modern corporate PR talk. To illustrate this point, I’ll observe that both terms are entirely consistent with Israel’s operations and actions in Gaza. One thing that is known is that Israel has been using an AI powered system to identify targets and quickly order strikes. “Cultural awareness” and “community knowledge” are words that are vague enough to include the inputs into such a system. A more crude way of putting it would be that bombing a mosque requires “cultural awareness”. Otherwise that mosque is just another building.

Yes, a person or group who is collecting cultural awareness and community knowledge about you and the people around you can be using that to cause you harm. And as the world moves from Collateral Damage to Genocide, one could say that these factors become more important to the operations. Collateral Damage was more random, while Genocide is an attempt to destroy a culture and ‘a people’ which in turn requires more cultural awareness and community knowledge.

— An entire district of the city, a substantial part of the city, was investigated in a conspiracy where almost every cop in the district was ‘dirty’. Yes, I had the pleasure of living in that part of town.
– A robbery gang was busted that had been hitting the big box stores. It was all veteran APD officers. They would ‘case the joint’ in uniform as a part of their duties, then come back at night and enter by cutting a hole in the metal roof, repelling down (probably a skill to be trained at “Cop City”) and then backing up a truck to load up.
— An alternative newspaper revealed that a Police commander who was running for mayor had an ‘interesting’ run in with the FBI. He was leading the city’s “anti-drug/anti-gang’ “Red Dog Squad” (maybe “Red Dawg Squad” in GA spelling?). The FBI was concluding an investigation into organized crime, and was going to wrap it up by throwing a party for their targets to gather them all together. Then, to their surprise, this police commander entered the room, started glad-handing all his friends, and complaining about how they could be throwing such a party without inviting him. The FBI had to find a way to get him out of the room before they arrested all his ‘friends’. Thankfully, he didn’t get elected as mayor. But the person who won I still think ended up in one of the then traditional FBI investigations of the Atlanta Mayor and City Council.

All of the above is “if I remember correctly”, as I followed Rogers Waters advice that “I’d better run” 20 years ago.

Thus, the Cox family controlled the city’s monopoly newspaper, the number one rated local TV news, the number one rated radio news (on the station that broadcast Rush Limbaugh in the metro area), and control of the channels on the local cable system.

In the last election, both major candidates were strongly pro-police and promising to ‘get tough on crime’. Donald Trump promises crackdowns to the point of constitutional violations. The Democrats ended up replacing pro-Police Joe Biden with former District Attorney and Attorney General Harris who vowed a ‘strong DOJ’ and who has always stayed far, far away from any calls to defund her friends and colleagues in the police. Over 95% of Americans voted for these more-fund-the-police candidates.

Democrats in city elections take the same ‘get tough on crime’ line. Even the ones who claim to be ‘progressive’. They are all pro-police.

The only movement aiming to defund police in recent times has come from the House Republicans. They’ve worked for the last two years to defund the police at the IRS who try to catch tax-cheats.